TE RM 3, WEEK 6 Wilberforce Public School August 30 2018

NEWSLETTER Macquarie Road, Wilberforce NSW 2756 Phone: 4575 1424 Fax: 4575 1096

Email: wilberforc-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Webpage: www.wilberforc-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

3rd September - P&C Meeting

3rd September - Longneck Lagoon (1/2B & 1/2C)

5th September - Hawkesbury Music Festival Rehearsal

6th September - Mathematics Challenge – Hawkesbury High (Selected Students)

7th September - Futsal Gala Day (Stage 1)

10th & 11th September – Specsavers Eye Screening

12th September - Year 6 High School Taster Day

IMPORTANT DATES

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Wilberforce Performance Groups Amazing at the Hawkesbury Eisteddfod!

Congratulations to our fabulous students on their wonderful performances at the Hawkesbury Eisteddfod. We are most grateful to the teachers Mrs Bean, Mrs Rodwell, Mrs van Hensbergen, Miss Watson, Mrs Dickerson and Mrs Quealey for accompanying the students and for the many extra hours they dedicate to our students.

Not being a dancer myself, I was surprised to find out some of the schools in the Eisteddfod come from as far away as West Pennant Hills and Lane Cove. The energy and enthusiasm of our Dance groups were outstanding, and our Junior Dances came away with a win in their category. The Boys Dance Group and Stage 2 Girls received a Highly Commended and the Stage 3 girls received a Very Highly Commended.

Congratulations to all our fabulous dancers and their amazing performances.

Student Representative Council Induction

Thank you to all our proud mums, dads and relatives for participating in our student representative council induction Assembly. Our students thoroughly enjoy this celebration of student leadership and certainly displayed a great deal of pride in being chosen to represent their class on our Semester 2 Student Representative Council. Students are already busy planning the next Smooth Off!

Public Speaking

Information regarding our Public Speaking Competition has been sent home, and I hope every student will give a formal speech. This is part of our learning program and as the program continues and students gain ability in this area they will develop the confidence to address an audience – something many adults still dread. Kindergarten students may choose a poem from a book or the internet, or write their own. I look forward to hearing the top two students in each class at our Public Speaking Finals on Thursday 18th of October.

P&C meeting

Our next P&C meeting will be held this coming Monday at 7:00pm in the staffroom. All are welcome.

Father’s Day Breakfast

Today we held our Father’s Day Breakfast; it was a great atmosphere with hundreds of smiling faces all around. Many thanks to all the teachers and staff who assisted in making this a special time for our Dads to spend with their children. Thanks also to all the fathers who attended as you play a critical role in supporting our students’ education. I would also like to thank the helpers who assisted in wrapping presents for our Dads and who helped at the stall this morning. We hope you enjoy your weekend.

Carpark, Parking and Bike Road Safety

We would like to ask all parents, and especially students, to avoid using the carpark gates as an entry and exit point for the school. The area around the carpark is out of bounds and students should not pass through it under any circumstances. All students, who ride to school, by law, must wear a helmet. Please ensure students wear helmets when they are riding to and from school. We continue to have issues around parking in the bus bay. Please do not double park to let students out as this is extremely dangerous. Please adhere to the road signage around the school.

Are You Leaving Us?

We are currently in the process of looking at our class structures for 2019. We realise some families move or have a variety of changes occur which may result in them having to leave our school. If you do anticipate that you and your family will not be with us next year, please fill in the slip and return it to Mrs Turner in the office as soon as possible or ring us on 45751424 or email wilberforc-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

This information is vital to us, so we can ensure we form the correct classes and support structures for our students.

Organisation 2019

Family Name: _______________________________________________________________

My child/children will not be return to Wilberforce Public School in 2019.

Parent Name: ______________________________Signed: ______________Parent/ Caregiver

Conjunctivitis

We have had a number of instances of conjunctivitis in K-2 over the last few weeks. Please be cautious and alert for the signs and symptoms. We attempt to reduce the risk of transmission at school as best we can. A link below to NSW Health will give you more information about this disease and some other common childhood infectious diseases.

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/factsheets/Pages/childhood.aspx

NAPLAN

As you would have undoubtedly heard, NAPLAN results were released this week. Individual student reports will be sent home to parents when the school receives them. The tests cover skills in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and numeracy. NAPLAN results provide our school with an annual snapshot of cohort achievement, trend data and of the learning progress of individuals. We use this data to inform curriculum planning and target instruction, but this is only one aspect of the assessment information we use at school. A report on the school’s results will be raised at a P&C meeting in Term 4.

Reports and Sentral

100% of teachers and parents who responded to the report survey were open to changing the format of the reports for Semester 2, 2018. Subsequently, we have purchased the school management software Sentral and are working on developing a new report format. A draft document will be available to comment on at the October P&C meeting. Over the next 12 months Sentral will be phased in to manage many key components of school and student data.

Thank you

Graham Wilkins

Principal

NEWS, NOTES AND HAPPENINGS

• To everyone who attended and helped with Open Day and to Mrs Bean, Mrs Rodwell, Mrs van Hensbergen, Mrs Dickerson, and Miss Watson for coordinating the performances at the Hawkesbury Eisteddfod.

• To Mrs van Hensbergen, Mrs Phillips, Mrs Dickerson and Mrs Chapple for attending the Kindergarten Preparation Evening. Mrs van Hensbergen does an outstanding job coordinating our Kindergarten classes.

• To all the staff who assisted at the Father’s Day BBQ today and all the dads who attended. • To everyone who attended and helped at our Father’s Day breakfast

NOTES Home NOTES Due Mathematics Challenge – Selected Students only TOMORROW Friday 31st August Hawkesbury High “A taste of High School” Day - Year 6 TOMORROW Friday 31st August Futsal Gala Day - Stage 1 Event is FULL Wilberforce Church Spring Fair – Dance Group only Monday 3rd September Specsavers Eye Screening – Whole School Thursday 6th September Kindergarten Taronga Zoo Excursion Friday 7th September Cricket Gala Day - Stage 2 Monday 10th September Kindy Pictureplates Monday 17th September

2019 Kindergarten

The dates in our Kindergarten transition program can be found below.

Term 4

Orientation Day 1 – Wednesday 31st October (Parents and Students) Orientation Day 2 - Wednesday 7th November (Students only) Transition afternoons to follow from 3:00pm to 3:30pm in the Kindergarten classrooms:

• Thursday 15th November • Thursday 22nd November • Tuesday 27th November • Thursday 6th December

NSW Premier’s Debating Competition

We reached the final 3 for our division in the NSW Premier’s Debating Competition, with the final debate today to see if we progress to the finals. Watch this space!!!

Fruit n Veg Month

Fruit and Veg Month 2018 will be held over the month of September - from Monday 3rd to Friday 28th September. The theme for Fruit & Veg Month 2018 is 'Happy Fruit & Veg'tember!' On Monday the 10th of September children will participate in Fruit and Veg Month during recess. All students will be provided a range of fruits and vegetables in a small cup to taste and try.

If you are available to assist in the cutting and preparing of fruits and vegetables please see Mrs Bean.

Thanks to SCIBERRAS FRESH FRUIT & VEGETABLES who supplied the fruit for Father’s Day

We also have pet rock tanks! We decorated

our own rocks and have jobs to care for our

tanks.

Soundwaves

Week 5

Term 3

Graphemes: Graphemes: Extra Focus Concepts:

i_e y Patterns: ine, ide, ind, ice, ike, ipe, ight ice, ide, ile, ine, ite, ize, ind, ight

Extra graphemes: light

Focus Concepts: Adding s, es, ed and ing to words ending in y, Homophones: I/eye, hi/high, died/dyed, die/dye, tide/tied, Prefix: bi

Week 6

Term 3

Graphemes: Graphemes: Extra Focus Concepts:

n, nn kn; ng n

Patterns: ing, ang, ong, ung

Wednesday

medicine, pneumonia; tongue

Word building/ Word families, Homophones: aunt/ aren’t, ring/wring, Homograph: minute, Contractions: where’s, aren’t, you’ll, let’s, it’s, couldn’t, they’d, we’ve, we’d, I’m, would’ve, she’ll, won’t, he’s, I’ll, Suffix: en, Prefixes: en, com, co, col, con, cor

STAGE NEWS

Early Stage 1

Kindergarten Science- Living Things!

This term, Kindergarten are learning about living things in Science. We are very engaged in this unit as we get to have the Henny Penny Chickens in our rooms for two weeks. They are teaching us about life cycles and giving us an interesting topic to write about! We have particularly enjoyed watching the eggs hatch.

We have 7 chickens and 7 more eggs still to hatch!

How exciting! A chicken is hatching!

We get to carefully hold the chickens.

Welcome to the world little one!

WEEKLY ASSEMBLY

Date Class Teachers

31 August 1/2A Mrs Ahmedi

7 September 5/6T Ms Tierney

14 September 5/6R Mr Ranger

WEEKLY AWARDS

Bronze Daniela B K Green x 2, Noah B 3/4R x 2, Scarlett B 1/2C, Declan T 5/6H, Lilly S K Red, Chase S 1/2C x 3, Riley M K Blue, Madison M 3/4B, Aidan M K Blue, Coby T 5/6H, Charli T 1/2D, Blayzen S K Blue, Charlie C 1/2D, Rhys S 1/2A, April M K Blue, Grace M 3/4B, Michael R 1/2B, Mya G K Green, Lincoln M K Red, Sierra M 1/2B, Gabriel M 3/4R, Ava S 3/4F, Riley S K Green, Noah S 5/6R x 3, Abbie T 1/2B x 2, Jackson T 3/4F x 2, Jack S 5/6R x 2, Aaron B 3/4F, Tristan M 1/2B, Jack P 1/2A, Amelia K 1/2A, Ella S 3/4F x 2, Ashlee D 3/4F, Samuel P 1/2A, Taylah Jo P 1/2A, Lacie B K Blue, Luke B 3/4F, Macy M 5/6C, Amity K K Green, Mackenzie K 5/6T x 3, Gwen D 1/2C, Chelsea L 3/4R, Deacon L 5/6T, Abbie V 3/4R, Emily V 1/2A, Ella G 1/2C, Ella W 5/6H, Maya W 3/4F x 2, Cooper A 1/2C, Flynn E 1/2C, Mason E K Green, June B 1/2D

Silver Scarlett B 1/2C, Declan T 5/6H, Chase S 1/2C, Stephanie A 5/6H, Charlie C 1/2D, Rhys S 1/2A, Noah S 5/6R, Abbie T 1/2B, Jackson T 3/4F, Samuel P 1/2A, Taylah Jo P 1/2A, Macy M 5/6C, Mackenzie K 5/6T, Abbie V 3/4R, Emily V 1/2A, Noah B 3/4R, Harrison J 1/2D, Flynn E 1/2C

Gold Declan T 5/6H

DANCE

Hawkesbury City Council Dance Eisteddfod

Last Wednesday 22nd August 96 children from Wilberforce Public School participated in the Hawkesbury City Council Dance Eisteddfod. It was a fantastic day that showcased the talent from some of our local Primary Schools. Well done to all groups. We are all very proud of you

Stage 1: Achy Breaky Heart: 1st Place

Stage 2: Boogie Fever: Highly Commended

Stage 3: This is Me: Very Highly Commended

Boys: It’s Like That: Highly Commended

SRC

Smooth Off

Round 2 of the Smooth-Off was yet again another great success. It was great to see so many children buying, trying and voting for the smoothies from 5/6C and 5/6T. A huge thankyou once again to Katie Marshall, Mel Moxon and Rebecca O’Sullivan for volunteering their time to create these delicious healthy smoothies for the children of our school. Round 3 of the Smooth-Off continues next week with 3/4B and 5/6R. Don’t forget your 50c.

Winners of the last two Smooth Offs have been 3/4R and 5/6C.

SPORT

Wilberforce Athletics Champions 2018

Juvenille Girl Champion Juvenille Boy Champion 1st Scarlett B 1st Lucas P 2nd Ella G 2nd Hudson H 3rd Mia L 3rd Jaxon B

Junior Girl Champion Junior Boy Champion 1st Hayley K 1st Noah B 2nd Ella S 2nd Max M 3rd Renae S 3rd Cameron S

11yr Girl Champion 11yr Boy Champion 1st Anna D 1st Adam M 2nd Emily M 2nd Ben T 3rd Romy S 3rd Hayden H

Senior Girl Champion Senior Boy Champion 1st Mia S 1st Aiden M 2nd (Equal) Molly J & Sumayah T 2nd Max R 3rd Mitchell L

House Results 1st Wombats 1281 points 2nd Kookaburras 1176 points 3rd Wallabies 1145 points 4th Koalas 904 points

Arndell Anglican College Interschool Equestrian Carnival

Congratulations to Abbie T who participated in the Arndell Equestrian event. Abbie won the championship in her age group after placing first in a number of events.

UNIFORM OPEN EVERY 2ND WEDNESDAY FROM 3PM

Orders can be placed online through our online store at www.wilberforcepandc.com.au

The shop will be opened next on: Wednesday 5th September

Wednesday 19th September

CANTEEN

*Unfortunately the Canteen will be closed on Monday 3rd September due to lack of volunteers.

There is an updated pricelist and will be posted on all the Facebook pages. If you would like a copy there will be some available at the Canteen and Front Office.

Monday Wednesday Friday 3 September 5 September 7 September

CANTEEN CLOSED*

Lorraine Plant Sandra Binks Renae Brown

Yvonne Tuckerman Anne Kroehnert

Melanie Reberger 10 September 12 September 14 September

Barbara Hawkins Rebecca Stephen

Melanie Jones Simone Stephens

Kerri Allen

Bek Smith Helene Giggins Joelene Muscat